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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Foxy Brown on March 13, 2006, 03:37:58 PM

Title: Japanese woman sparks a revival of blacksmith's craft
Post by: Foxy Brown on March 13, 2006, 03:37:58 PM

By tradition, a village blacksmith should be a gruff, sooty, broad-shouldered man. But Junko Mori, a young Japanese artist, is hoping to break the mould. She is training to become a figurehead for the future of blacksmithing in a bid to save one of Britain's most traditional rural crafts from extinction. (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1729024,00.html)

Title: Japanese woman sparks a revival of blacksmith's craft
Post by: daigong on March 22, 2006, 08:25:06 AM

Wow. I never knew the museum was hiring!